Alias Qi Vine, Blood Vine, Red Fragrant Blood Vine, Purple Gold Blood Vine, Great Stretching Tendon, Western Five-flavored, Medicinal Five-flavored, Red Nine-stranded Cow

SourceThe roots and vines of the winged pedunculated schisandra Schisandra henryi C. B. Clarke of the Northern Schisandra genus of the Magnoliaceae family, the fruits of which are also used medicinally. When the fruit is ripe, dig up the roots and remove the fruit; the remaining root and vine are sliced and dried separately.

Functions

Root and vine: expelling wind and removing dampness, activating blood circulation and relieving pain. Used for rheumatism and bone pain, vasculitis, bruises, stomach pain, bone fracture.

Fruit: astringent lung cough, stop sweating astringent. Used for lung deficiency, asthma and cough, spontaneous sweating, night sweating, spermatorrhea.